Playtest House Rules/Revision Suggestions

[YRUSirius]

I just virulently, violently hate the idea that wearing certain kinds of armors renders your Dexterity irrelevant. It's a major verisimilitude issue for me. I can accept that someone with a high enough Dexterity might be better off without armor most of the time, but unless you are immobilized, higher Dexterity should always make you harder to hit.

Even if you carry heavy stuff?

-YRUSirius

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

Even if you carry heavy stuff?

If you're carrying enough heavy stuff that you can't defend yourself adequately, you should grant advantage to attackers.

Armor does not prevent you from defending yourself. If it did, warriors would have never worn the stuff.

 

[YRUSirius]

But a knight in full plate isn't as agile as a ninja in clothes and can't dodge as good as the ninja?

-YRUSirius

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

But a knight in full plate isn't as agile as a ninja in clothes and can't dodge as good as the ninja?

Of course not. I'm not saying full Dex. I'm saying half Dex.

I'm not saying a Knight with 18 DEX should be as agile as a Ninja with 18 DEX-- I'm saying he should be more agile than a Knight with 10 DEX. Using half Dex, a Knight with 18 DEX is as agile as a Knight with 14 DEX. And that sounds about right to me.

 

[jadrax]

But a knight in full plate isn't as agile as a ninja in clothes and can't dodge as good as the ninja?

-YRUSirius

There may be an argument for Ninja's getting some sort of AC bonus, due to them being ... Ninjas.

The problem at the moment is that Heavy Armour proficiency is supposed to be a 'Good Thing', and right now I am not convinced it really is.